The best of literary internet
- On the rise (and fall) of the Japanese cell phone novel (and its attendant moral panic) in the early 2000s. | Lit Hub Technology
- Josh Cook, bookseller and founder porter square books review, It explores why booksellers are stepping in as book criticism disappears. | Lit Hub in conversation
- “Simply put, people don’t buy books. They buy holograms, and they expect the book to match.” What happens when the idea of a book dominates the book in the eyes of the readers? | lit hub criticism
- Steven W. Thrasher explains why we must all fight for academic freedom despite institutional cowardice and government overreach. | Lit Hub Politics
- “There have been many times recently when I wanted to throw my laptop across the room, drop everything and live in the woods. This was one of them.” Monica Potts faces the extent of AI theft of her work. | new republic
- Even though Sarah Wynn-Williams should have remained silent, Meta still looks like a bully “pursuing a personal agenda.” | wired
- Nitsuh Abebe Explore Increasing (“almost camp”) use of “degenerate”. | The New York Times Magazine
- “As we look at the charred flesh in Gaza, we’re also looking at the wreckage of this older version of the Western empire. With both of those in mind, how to combine the frames to keep watching?” Isabella Hammad on Gaza, destruction and mourning. | equator
- David Cole believes Ruling against Florida’s Stop Voc Act. | New York Review of Books
- Katie Kitamura tells Ann Tashi Slater about it Importance of looking out the window. | Tricycles.
- Ali Reza Taskele believes Abuse of science fiction in Silicon Valley. | Kalpa
- Hassan Abo Qamar on watching the World Cup in Gaza: “For 90 minutes, the World Cup gives us something that genocide has tried to take away: a sense of community, a sense of normality, and a moment of pure celebration.” | Nation
- “Tokens…acquire functional value relatively through learned patterns of differential and contextual association, rather than through any intrinsic bond between word and object.” How does semiotics relate to the development of LLM? | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “He heard me explaining that the odds at Russian roulette are actually quite good.” Jacob Russell writes a dispatch from Beirut. | paris review
- Christina Dorador writes A love letter to the Atacama Desert amid climate changeTranslated by Robin Myers. | dial
- Hua Hsu reviews Shiva Naipaul’s newly-reissued 1980 Jonestown essay, journey to nowhereWhich “raises questions not only about good and evil, but also echoes through time: the fierce power of personality, politics built on insane promises, our tendency to mistake charisma for wisdom.” | the new Yorker
- Pasquale Toscano investigates odyssey Through the lens of disability (and American politics). | public books
- Geraldine Brooks on Origin and impact of uncle Tom’s Cabin. | smithsonian magazine
- “The responsibility is not on readers. The responsibility is on publishers and awards committees and all the other forces that determine which books remain visible over time.” How Doubleday’s newly reissued series, Outsider Edition, is expanding the canon. | language arts
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